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YAJNAVALKYA |
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Crown of Sarvajna There were many eminent persons of astounding scholarship present at the great seminar. There was a heavy downpour of questions on Yajnavalkya. Pat came his answer, with confidence and competence to every question. What is it that enables one to become free from death? What is a soul? What pervades this perceptible world and the sky? Such and a wide variety of questions were put by the scholars one after another. The lady philosopher Gargi also put several questions. "Mind alone is the means of obtaining salvation. Mind is Brahman. He who is present in all beings and is within every being, whom all creatures cannot comprehend and to whom the body is all beings; He who dwelling withinregulates all beings, is the in-dweller, the immortal Soul. This entire perceptible world, the sky and everything are filled with the immutable, that is to say, the indestructible Supreme Soul. Until one realizes this one cannot escape from the misery and suffering of birth and death. When one is aware of the imperishable, the Soul Supreme, one is called Brahma-jnani or Brahmanishta (one established in the Brahman) and he is liberated from the painful chains of birth and death," said Yajnavalkya speaking from his own realisation of Vedic truths. His replies flowed into the hearts and minds of all the listeners like sacred Jnana-Ganga (the holy stream of supreme wisdom). The persons who----had put the questions would sit down satisfied with the answers saying, "We bow down -to the Brahmarshi." All the participants of the Jnanayaga praised Yajnavalkya as
Sarvajna, the Brahmanishta, and honored him. Loud cheers were heard in the assembly. Then
king Janaka stood up and sought the permission of the august body to declare Yajnavalkya
elected to the chair of Sarvajna. The assembly readily acclaimed it. Maharaja Janaka
ceremoniously offered the crown of Sarvajna to Brahmarshi Yajnavalkya and bowed to his
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